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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 2506802, member: 78298&quot;]Almost every coin has been cleaned at one time or another (old coins).</p><p>I guess it depends how harshly or lightly or carefully this was done.</p><p>How can someone say, about a 150 year old coin, that they &quot;know&quot;, they &quot;guarantee&quot; it has never been cleaned?</p><p>I have a 1900 $5 gold, which my grandmother claimed she had when she was a child, when she gave it to me. I have never cleaned it, so that one probably has not been cleaned, if her story was true and not apocryphal. But otherwise I think you have to assume most coins that are very old and in sparkling condition have been cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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